Why do fake black belts believe flashy jump and spin kicks are effective?

[SeekerOfTruth007]

The athleticism of jump kicks and spin kicks is fine. It's good acrobatics, but that is not sound fighting techniques. It leaves you off-balance and possibly gives up your back to Rear Naked Choke or a punch to the back of the neck or head.

I have around 2000 sparring hours against 2nd degree black belts, and I have NEVER been hit in the head by a head kick, jump kick, or spin kick.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Rtof3cogF-M?si=YUH2rCDtV0fjGHBr

[AI Opinion]

In real fights and hard sparring, most flashy kicks are low-percentage moves. They take longer to execute, are easier to read, and leave you off-balance or with your back exposed, just like you said 😅

They mainly survive because of:
Demonstrations, movies, point-sparring rules, and poor coaching.

High-level fighters use simpler, efficient tools: low kicks, jabs, crosses, knees, clinch. Flashy stuff is garnish, not the main dish. 🥊

[SeekerOfTruth007]

While that is correct, most of the grappling you see in MMA is actually invalid in a self-defense situation, because you're actually too close to your opponent's hands when doing double underhooks or other wrestling or BJJ takedowns and clinches. What would happen in a real fight is if you tried that you'd get gouged in the eyes or bitten or kicked/kneed in the groin full power, etc, and there's no referee to save you from a "foul" in a street fight.

[Levin]

Most martial arts is bullshit. Especially the so called respectable ones that witter on about grappling. Sure, I'm sure your grappling is effective, good, in your cage.

But it always presupposes that my gloves are not off, and I wouldn't have smashed open your face, hit you in the neck, elbowed you before you grabbed hold of me.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

I've said something similar in my video addressing "double underhooks" in cage matches, because BJJ students and wrestlers always go for double underhooks, etc.

My hands are free to gouge their eyes out in a real street fight, so that BJJ crap does not work in a real fight.

[purplepoppy]

There was a form of fighting based on jump kicks in the UK in the 1800s called Welsh jump kicking. It's recorded in a martial arts book of the day by colonel Monstery. It only lasted a few years because it was shit and didn't work.

Fake experts use flashy moves because it impresses people who follow their YouTube channels